The group of Black female mathematicians whose work for NASA in the 1960s inspired the Oscar-nominated movie Hidden Figures were awarded the nation's highest civilian honor in Washington ...

This help often came in the form of Indigenous People, enslaved Africans, Black healers, and others whose names and contributions have been lost to history. These hidden figures, people whose stories ...

NASA on Friday is named its Washington headquarters after Mary W. Jackson, the space agency's first African American female engineer whose story was portrayed in the popular film "Hidden Figures."… ...

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